Food you made as a kid but no more: cinnamon toast for me

[Demovictory9]

Butter sugar cinnamon on white bread..bake in that bottom part of oven

[rsdsharp]

1. I used to eat graham crackers and milk,

like cereal. Don’t remember the last time I did that.

[MOMFUDSKI]

7. Same here eating grahams with milk but

we added brown sugar on top. Being diabetic now, that gives me the willies. lol

[Demovictory9]

9. Lol. Stuff we used to eat and stayed stick thin

[rsdsharp]

18. Nope. I was never smaller.

I was just younger.

Wait. Why am I laughing?

[I_UndergroundPanther]

10. I eat grahm crackers with peanut butter

If my blood sugar is a bit low.

When it gets seriously low I squirt a shitload of honey in my mouth. It raises my sugar levels fast.

Really dangerously low I get some sugary juice like orange juice and stir sugar into it and chug it.

I love honey on the peanut butter grahm crackers but nowadays I use just the peanut butter.

[rsdsharp]

20. Sixteen months ago, while in the hospital, they woke me up at 1 AM

and told me my blood sugar was 42. Six or eight small packages of graham crackers, and at least that many orange juice cups, and it staggered up to the mid 80s. That was a fun night. Not as fun as the week before when it hit 440 (with other interesting complications) but interesting, nonetheless.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

21. My bsl is usially in the 80's or

90's with the ocasional115 or so in the morning.

I feel better when my bsl is in those ranges.

I eat a keto diet and take metformin and glimperide.

[Elessar Zappa]

46. So the keto diet works well?

I can’t get my A1C under 7.6 no matter how hard I try. The only thing I haven’t tried is a keto-type diet.

[Demovictory9]

35. never heard of this snack

[rsdsharp]

59. We ate it more like cereal.

[Scottie Mom]

2. Toasted Cheese sandwich with mustard and pickles.

I now use mayo and avocado 🥑 on my Toasted Cheese sandwich.

[True Dough]

3. But why?

Why are you quitting cinnamon toast?

[Demovictory9]

8. I forgot it even existed

Pops in my mind time to time..ate in the wonder bread years.. I guess stopped when soft white bread was no longer in fashion

[True Dough]

11. Soft white bread is no longer in fashion?

Nobody told our household. We still eat plenty of it (but not as cinnamon toast).

[Demovictory9]

28. Lol 😀

[lastlib]

29. I stopped it when our little toaster oven died....

Just too inefficient to heat up a big oven for two slices of bread.

[List left]

4. honey butter and cambric tea

Not mixed together of course.

[Lochloosa]

5. Mirical Whip sandwiches with white bread.

[Demovictory9]

36. ewwww. I didn't like mayo as a kid

[Lochloosa]

43. Mirical Whip is not Mayo. It was so much better.

[Mopar151]

6. Toaster oven, on an English muffin! Baguette? You bet!

Honey works, too. Mrs Mopar likes cheese. Whitebread only works in the popup toaster,, too delicate otherwise.

Or maybe you swapped out some taste buds - happy munchjng!

[northoftheborder]

12. White bread is best for:

Cinnamon toast and French Toast. Whole wheat breads adds an incompatible flavor I think! Guess that's why I never make those any more - all my bread is whole grain now!

[happybird]

13. I still do cinnamon toast when there is nothing else sweet in the house

Quick, easy, and tasty!

Spaghetti O’s were the first thing I thought of. No hotdogs or sawdust meatballs or any of those fancy schmancy varieties. Just good ol’ plain Spaghetti O’s.

Wonder how they taste now?

[Demovictory9]

26. Loved spaghettios as a kid

[Kali]

27. slightly acidic very sweet mush

son still likes those. they are gross.

[subterranean]

14. Fluffernutter sandwiches

That's Marshmallow Fluff + peanut butter, for those who are unfamiliar.

Also Jell-O instant pudding. It's been several decades since I made that, or ate it.

[nocoincidences]

15. At night, right before bedtime,

I would sometimes, not every night, get a "soppy egg sandwich."

I still eat my eggs 'soppy', runny yolks, but I no longer get the luxury of two piece of bread to hold them.

And I don't have my mother to make them for me, with extra love.

I just have to love myself, and that means soppy eggs, no bread.

[a kennedy]

53. I can not ever have my eggs gishy......I'll gag and hurl.....eggs HAVE to be cooked.

[nocoincidences]

56. The whites have to be cooked,

but the yolk is the soppy part.

So much flavor!

I think having learned to like the flavor as a treat when I was young, got me past the urpy thing a lot of people go through. I do like the whites to be well cooked, though.

[Freddie]

16. Cheez Whiz on a hot toasted English muffin

All melted and so yummy…tried it again recently. Yuck. Like many foods, Cheez Whiz has changed and not for the better. Doesn’t melt, bland and tasteless. Kraft probably reduced the sodium to make it “healthier.” Blech.

[Demovictory9]

25. Hadnt been exposed to quality cheese when atw cheez whiz

We only had pre sliced american cheese at home

[Ocelot II]

17. Cinnamon toast for me, too.

[applegrove]

19. Oh I mix sugar and cinnamon in a cup. Toast bread. Butter with butter.

Then sprinkle it on the bread. One of the only sweet things my mom allowed.....that and butterscotch pudding.

[Kali]

23. that's how we make too

well, now just layer cinnamon and sugar. but I do still have the little jar my Grandma kept her cinnamon sugar in.

Mother and Grandma both did theirs in the oven and it does give a nice texture, but the toaster is so much faster.

[applegrove]

31. My grandmother had the best recipe to make cocoa from scratch.

1 Tbsp cocoa and 1 Tbsp butter mixed with a whisk and cooked in a pot till it is cooked and forms a paste. Add 2 cups 2%milk and sugar to taste (or sugar substitute these days) and heat up. Pour into a mug. Enjoy. My grandmother would of had this as a tot in the 1800s. Later would have made it for her kids (my mom and aunt) on the farm she ran in the 1930s, 40s. Back when everything was made from scratch. Then she made it for us kids in the 70s.

[Demovictory9]

38. butterscotch pudding..wasnt may fav

[Demovictory9]

39. you miss out on the butter, sugar and cinnamon cooking together to form a sweet salty crust

we buttered first, sprinkled on the sugar/cinn, then baked

[applegrove]

42. Sounds delightful.

[Binkie The Clown]

22. I still eat everything I ate as a kid. I liked it then, and I like it now 60-70 years later.

Especially graham cracker and milk. By which I mean, break up the graham crackers in a bowl and pour the milk over the top.

[Kali]

24. graham crackers and quick chocolate frosting

made with powdered sugar, milk and cocoa (or nestle's quick? can't remember) sounds nauseating to me now.

[Sogo]

30. chocolate frosting on saltine crackers

(haven't thought about that in a very long time!)

[Demovictory9]

37. that's a new one

[Nevilledog]

32. They sell cinnamon sugar in the spice aisle

Still love it.

[Bayard]

33. I swore off carbs almost a year ago now

And I do miss cinnamon toast (made with stevia and unsalted butter). Whole grain bread. Nums.

[jpak]

34. Royal Lunch Milk Crackers and milk

Broke them up in a cereal bowl with milk and sugar.

Can't find them anymore

[smirkymonkey]

40. Mustard sandwiches.

I don't know why, but I kind of liked mustard sandwiches. I have always liked mustard (all kinds except for honey mustard) and would just make them as a snack sometimes. Eventually I grew out of it as I got less hungry during the day.

[Elessar Zappa]

47. Just mustard and bread?

That’s interesting. I love mustard but I’m not sure I’d like that. Maybe I’ll try it today lol.

[smirkymonkey]

60. Yes, I have kind of weird taste sometimes.

I love mustard. Sometimes I would just squirt it on my finger and eat it plain.

[nocoincidences]

58. I've known people who ate mayo sandwiches,

I've done it myself, but not mustard!

[Nittersing]

41. Spaghetti with butter

Didn't like it with sauce as a kid.

Also a cinnamon toast fan. Haven't had it in years because (like a previous poster) I just kinda forgot about it.

[nocoincidences]

57. I still like to eat pasta, any kind,

with butter and garlic, as a quick treat/meal.

Sometimes you just aren't up for a heavy sauce!

[grumpyduck]

44. With respects to everyone else,

I haven't liked graham crackers since grammar school. They used to give us a couple of them with a little carton of milk as a morning snack. I guess I just got overexposed to them. Even later

[lark]

49. Me neither.

Graham crackers are good for crusts, and homemade banana puddings (with real homemade custard & ripe bananas) and that's about it.

[grumpyduck]

50. I dont know about that.

I think some of here will want you to prove it. 😀

[lark]

52. Yeah, it is a total pain in the back to make that way with all the stirring required.

I have to plan for it in advance so my wrongly twisted back can have a chance at handling it.

[Demovictory9]

61. i buy them sometimes as a mildly sweet snack

Graham crackers taste sweet than.cookies

[mopinko]

45. potato chips and cottage cheese.

do indulge occasionally, but not often.

[lark]

48. Cinnamon toast on whole wheat is far better than the white version.

I love it! Since I'm eating healthier, I cut way back on the butter and sugar and use more cinnamon which helps metabolize sugar. It's still a little slice of tasty sin, but not as sinful as before.

[Irish_Dem]

51. I still eat cinnamon toast.

Make toast, butter it, then sprinkle a mixture of cinnamon and sugar on top.

Coincidentally, I was just about to make some when I saw your post!

[a kennedy]

54. Sharp cheddar cheese on buttered saltine crackers. Yummmmmmm

[Hotler]

55. Hotdog on a fork, cooked over the burner of a gas stove. Remember them?

after school special when mom wasn't looking.

[grumpyduck]

62. Oh, yeah!

[Demovictory9]

63. we baked the hot dogs in the bottom oven area... until the skin begin to burn

NEVER eat hot dogs now